Game: Turkey Bowl

This game involves a frozen turkey (which can be given to the teen with highest bowling score as a prize). Set up a makeshift bowling alley. (You can find used bowling pins online for a few dollars each). An o...

Super Capes

Acquire a long roll of butcher paper for this game and invite each person in the youth group to create a cape (similar to Superman's cape) that each can attach to his or her back with masking tape. Once everyon...

Improve Youth Resources and Get Cool Stuff!

If you work with youth, we'd LOVE to get your opinion on a few questions. Your input is so important to us that we are giving away your choice of an iPad Mini2, a FitBit, a GoPro Camera, cash and other fun stuf...

Youth Culture Lesson: Paris Tragedy

And Dealing with Disaster in Our Own Lives Get downloadable PDF. Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation. About/Disclaimer What Happened It had been a normal night in Paris Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. ...

Making the Connection

For this game, you will need a skein of yarn. Gather your group in a circle and invite each person to hold onto the yarn, and then toss the skein to someone across the circle. Continue this holding and throwing...

Battle Fatigue

"The battle belongs to the Lord." (Song lyrics) Not long ago, I was having lunch with a pastoral colleague who recently had emerged from a protracted difficulty in the congregation. "Really," he said, "I...